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The fundamental error of Oxfam’s approach to poverty

Oxfam operates at an abysmally low moral level.

In Haïti, it appears to be given over to venery and the exploitation of frailty.

In England, its grandiloquent headquarters is bursting with overpaid, rent-seeking, ferociously avaricious staff.

Corruption at every level of the ‘charity’ mocks taxpayers, donors and volunteers.

But there is something else we need to bear in mind. Oxfam’s worldview is cock-eyed and harmful. Dalrymple writes:

Oxfam’s ideas of how poverty is to be overcome — by means of foreign aid — are deeply flawed. The organisation, supposedly focused on poverty, has contrived to overlook the greatest reduction in mass poverty in history, namely that which has occurred in India and China in the last 30 years, and to reflect upon how it was brought about. This reduction had nothing to do with foreign aid, or even concern for social justice.